reread

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to read a text again

   I reread the final paragraph to make sure I understood the argument.

2. 2
   verb

   to interpret or reconsider a text, event, or body of evidence in a new way

   The historian asks readers to reread the uprising as a labor movement rather than a riot.

Formed from re- ('again') + read. It first names the straightforward act of reading again; the critical sense extends that repetition to a fresh interpretation. Like read, the past-tense form keeps the same spelling even though the vowel in read is pronounced as in red.

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